Happiness is

[jagabom]

spending an hour troubleshooting why there is absolutely no power anywhere after changing the battery and realizing the kill switch was pushed in. LOL

Jim

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[steiner]

Now thats funny right there

Isn't nice to know that your still human.

Just spent 30 mins tearing my garage and work truck apart looking for my cordless drill which was sitting in plain sight on my work bench.

 

[jagabom]

For me it's called the golden years.
Jim
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[kingtut]

I did that on my motorcycle. Rolled up to a stop sign and accidentally hit the switch. wouldn't start so i pushed it to the gas station that was there. Called work saying i was going to be late because of my bike. Walked about 1/10th of a mile before someone stopped to pick me up. Got a ride back to my bike from my friend that I worked with. Tried to start it and nothing. Wheeled it across the street to a restaurant where people car pool to park it till I can get a truck. try the kill switch and it was pressed. Puppy fired right up and vroom vroom I went.

 

[Irv]

I did that on my motorcycle. Rolled up to a stop sign and accidentally hit the switch. wouldn't start so i pushed it to the gas station that was there. Called work saying i was going to be late because of my bike. Walked about 1/10th of a mile before someone stopped to pick me up. Got a ride back to my bike from my friend that I worked with. Tried to start it and nothing. Wheeled it across the street to a restaurant where people car pool to park it till I can get a truck. try the kill switch and it was pressed. Puppy fired right up and vroom vroom I went.

Did the same thing last year during a solo ride, I stopped for a break and when I went to go, nothing!

Tried and tried and was oh so close to calling a buddy, when I tired the kill switch, and sure enough I must have hit it when I put my helmet on the hadle bars! DOH!

 

[Yamadog]

I think you need a kill switch strobe that lights up when switch depressed.

I was riding with a guy one time in the UP we came out from lunch and his sled would not start he opened the hood I said did you hit the kill switch? He said it does not work. we left him to his tools and he started working on it. When we came back an hour later he had the plugs out the carbs off and the electrical apart. I rode back and got the truck and trailer. When I got back to him he had put it all back togther still no luck. I pulled up on the switch and it started on the first pull>

 

[RedRX1]

I did the same thing on my Apex this year. Then, after I get that all figured out, I realized the foam liner that the battery sets in was setting on the floor So, I did it a second time. Now that I have practice, I'm doing my fathers for him.

It would be nice to see a sled engineered to be easily maintained some day. Then when we have the senior moments, it wouldn't take so much time to do things over again.

 

[YammyRX1]

My keyboard tells me that the 'Caps Lock' is on when I go to type a password, you would think they could rig something up for the kill switch that senses when you are trying to start it and the switch is down- maybe use the back-up alarm as an audible. Sounds like a job for one of the Product Development guys on this site!

 

[jagabom]

On my 05 Suzuki C90 Boulevard motorcycle, when you turn the key on and all conditions are not met for a start, the word CHEK comes on on the instrument cluster to remind you that something is amiss. That's what the Yamaha needs. Not just nothing.
Jim
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[ranger1]

spending an hour troubleshooting why there is absolutely no power anywhere after changing the battery and realizing the kill switch was pushed in. LOL

Jim

08 APEX

OMG, toooo funny, thanks for sharing that boo boo, lol!

 

[apexmcneil]

On my 05 Suzuki C90 Boulevard motorcycle, when you turn the key on and all conditions are not met for a start, the word CHEK comes on on the instrument cluster to remind you that something is amiss. That's what the Yamaha needs. Not just nothing.
Jim
08 APEX

my suzuki king quad does the same thing!!

 

[Cummins6.7pwr]

Did the same thing bout a month ago. I had everything torn down to paint, put a buch of LED's on, and polish the tunnel. I put the battery back in and put everything back together then thought I would fire it up to see if everything worked. Hit the switch and NOTHING. It was late at night so I left it. I couldn't sleep that night b/c of it so I went back out about 4 a.m. and checked everything I could think of that I had apart. THEN IT DAWNED ON ME...f'n kill switch! She fired right up!!!

 

[MidwestMike]

Ahh, the kill switch...

Girlfriend standing there as were about to take a bike ride. "Let me give it a quick wash, will only take a minute"
Wouldn't start afterwards so of course I figured something got wet and started troubleshooting. Found the problem though, hit the kill switch with the drying towel.

Swore that would never happen to me on a bike again, and it hasn't.

Although I can tell you the fix when I couldn't get my snowmobile to start last week...

 

[kingtut]

I think you need a kill switch strobe that lights up when switch depressed.

If one has been made i will put it on every machine i have that has a kill switch. It could go around the button and instead of just breaking the circuit, it would take the power and divert it from the starter and use it to run the l.e.d.s that are in the housing. All a kill switch does is take the battery power and divert it into a ground, why not just add a l.e.d. bar into the circuit. I freaking want one now.

 

[Bluebullet]

I remember back in 07, first ride of the season on the old 2003 RX1, loaded in the truck, drove 3 hours to Jackman maine, got out went to start the sled and nothing,,,, Being so prepared from reading this forum about battery failure I had bought a jump pack and kept it in the truck just for this reason. ( thinking I am so smart and well prepared) I Pulled the jump pack out, went to jump my sled and still nothing? what to sh..? starting to get cranked up and what did I finally realize... Kill switch button was still pushed down!!!!!! Luckily I was with three other Yamaha guys so it wasn't to bad just some razing from them rest of the day! All was good and had a fun day! I still always push down the kill button when loading or trailing to ride I just remember to lift it back up when nothing works. lol